{"id":22728,"date":"2016-08-13T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22728"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:13:07","slug":"let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>When the moon rises high, like a celestial eye<br \/>\na voice rides upon the whipping wind, saying,<br \/>\n&#8220;Let go, let go&#8230;change is coming.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bend, bend&#8230;be like the wise Willow and not the stubborn Oak.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>Before the witching hour,<br \/>\nevery heart and mind drifts to the ruminations of the past.<br \/>\nAll the what-if&#8217;s, the regrets, the should\u2019s and could have been\u2019s<br \/>\ncycle within the heart,\u00a0like a clock upon the wall.<br \/>\nWith every ticking of its hand,<br \/>\nhearts church with the fears and unknowns of tomorrow.<br \/>\nBut indeed this is to be human.<\/h5>\n<h5>But oh, to be wise\u2026<br \/>\nTo be self-aware\u2026<br \/>\nOne must allow themselves to ponder each emotion and every fear,<br \/>\nto journey the emotional gauntlet without shame,<br \/>\nso that their soul&#8217;s myriad of questions may be answered.<br \/>\nAnswers that vary as vastly as the sands within the seas,<br \/>\nanswers that already lie within every heart &#8211;<br \/>\nif one only has the courage to see them.<\/h5>\n<h5>Hate wickedness, but do not hate your humanity.<br \/>\nHate complacency, but do not hate the seasons of your preparation.<br \/>\nYou will soar, but first you must run\u00a0 &#8211; light and free.<br \/>\nLeave the burdens you bear behind you.<br \/>\nMemories are a beautiful gift, but they cannot hold you,<br \/>\nor embrace your tear streaked face.<br \/>\nLet go of all that swallows you, and look up.<br \/>\nChange is coming.<\/h5>\n<h5>And in these hours of pensive thought, the gentle voice whispers again,<br \/>\n&#8220;Let go\u2026\u00a0 let go\u2026 be like the Willow.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bend with the wind that would break you.<br \/>\n&#8220;And you will stand stronger than the oldest of Oak\u2019s.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9th out of 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the moon rises high, like a celestial eye a voice rides upon the whipping wind, saying, &#8220;Let go, let go&#8230;change is coming. &#8220;Bend, bend&#8230;be like the wise Willow and not the stubborn Oak.&#8221; Before the witching hour, every heart and mind drifts to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[680,1664,1665,156,1442,75,1663,410,102,1667,1158,1280,1666,1668,1084],"class_list":["post-22728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-bend","tag-do-not-break","tag-hour-9","tag-human","tag-inspiration","tag-let-go","tag-memories","tag-moon","tag-oak-tree","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2016","tag-saskia-lynge","tag-willow","tag-witching-hour","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22796,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22728\/revisions\/22796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}